University of Toronto

Digital Tools
for
Manuscript Study

We aim to create useful tools that improve researchers’ experience working with digitized manuscripts.

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Digital Tools for
Manuscript Study

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EXPLORE SOME OF OUR IIIF CONTENT

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Our Projects

IIIF To Go

Boxed IIIF environments

Screenshot of IIIF to Go (Omeka Version)
  • Set up a boxed IIIF environment on your desktop
  • Create and use local IIIF materials
  • Available environments: Omeka, VisCodex, UTL IIIF API

Mirador

IIIF-compliant image viewer

Mirador
  • Load images from any IIIF-compliant repositories through manifests
  • Annotate images
  • Rotate and manipulate images
  • Download selected region or entire image
  • Compare images side by side

Omeka Plugins

Plugins for Omeka web-publishing platform

IIIF Toolkit

IIIF Toolkit

  • Incorporate Mirador into your Omeka website
  • Create and store annotations and other IIIF items directly in Omeka
  • Search all IIIF items in Omeka
  • Export IIIF items as CSV

CSV Export Plugin

CSV Export Format

  • Export to CSV, omeka-json, omeka-xml, atom, dcmes-xml and rss2
  • Available for Omeka Classic 2.3+ and collections in Omeka Classic 2.5+
  • Exported CSV files compatible with CSV Import plugin
  • Integratable with IIIF Toolkit plugin

Screenshot of Batch Uploader plugin for Omeka Classic

Batch Uploader

  • Batch upload local files to Omeka
  • Metadata associated with files are automatically uploaded

Screenshot of IIIF Toolkit Annotation Remapper plugin for Omeka Classic

IIIF Toolkit Annotation Remapper

  • Map annotations between manifests
  • Annotations are scaled according to a shared reference area
  • Annotations in lower-quality images can be adapted to higher-resolution images

Screenshot of Job Diagnostics plugin for Omeka Classic

Job Diagnostics

  • View existing running jobs
  • Verify whether the job dispatch queue is working

VisCodex

Manuscript collation web application

VisCodex
  • Build, edit and manipulate collation diagrams
  • Add metadata onto visualizations
  • Export collation diagrams to XML, JSON, and PNG
  • Associate IIIF images to leaves in collation diagrams

IIIF API

Implements IIIF Presentation, Image, Search and Discovery API specifications

IIIF API
  • Create IIIF resources from scratch or from any IIIF-compliant repositories
  • Manage and share IIIF resources
  • Supported IIIF resources include: collections, manifests, sequences, canvases, annotations, annotation lists, ranges, layers and content (image, text, video, audio, etc)
  • Search for any metadata in any IIIF resources
  • Activity streams are automatically generated for IIIF discovery